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Journal Journal: Sitrep

Journal by AyeRoxor! on Friday October 08, 2010 @10:29AM

I married her :) Gorgeous, loves me deeply, shares many of my interests, misses me. The job pays well, but is wonky atm. Two cow orkers split. Just me. Looking for new orkers. Copasetic...

Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista 662

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 28, 2008 @02:14PM from the you-scratch-my-back dept.

bfwebster writes "Microsoft is currently facing a class-action suit over its designation of allegedly under-powered hardware as being 'Vista Capable.' The discovery process of that lawsuit has now compelled Microsoft to produce some internal emails discussing those issues. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has published extracts of some of those emails, along with a link to a a PDF file containing a more extensive email exchange. The emails reflect a lot of frustration among senior Microsoft personnel about Vista's performance problems and hardware incompatibilities. They also appear to indicate that Microsoft lowered the hardware requirements for 'Vista Capable' in order to include certain lower-end Intel chipsets, apparently as a favor to Intel: 'In the end, we lowered the requirement to help Intel make their quarterly earnings so they could continue to sell motherboards with 915 graphics embedded.' Read the whole PDF; it is informative, interesting, and at times (unintentionally) funny."

NASA Looking For "Diamonds In The Sky" 101

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @06:49PM from the asteroid-mining-the-next-big-industry dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Scientist Charles Bauschlicher and his research team have found a new way to look for 'diamonds in the sky'. It may not be romantic, but diamonds shine especially brightly in the 3.4 to 3.5 micron and 6 to 10 micron infrared ranges, which should make NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope the perfect tool to see them with. Though less common and more monopolized on earth, diamonds are surprisingly common in outer space and the nanometer-sized bits comprise 3% of all the carbon found in meteorites. That means that if meteorite composition is representative of interstellar dust, that dust would contain about 10 quadrillion (1 * 10^16) nanodiamonds per gram."

Journal Journal: It's been a while

Journal by AyeRoxor! on Sunday November 04, 2007 @11:10PM

In fact, this December will have been two years since I found her. It's been fun and exciting and scary and everything I probably would have imagined had I ever stopped to imagine realistically. More to come, I hope :)

Comment bleh (Score 3, Interesting) 84

by angst911 on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @03:25PM (#20841889) Attached to: Leaks Reveal New Xbox 360 Package

How about an XBOX 360 with an internal HD-DVD drive instead?

Journal Journal: Whoa...

Journal by AyeRoxor! on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @06:59PM

It's gettin quiet in Slashdot land...

Comment This is great news!!! (Score 1) 553

by AyeRoxor! on Friday June 23, 2006 @09:11PM (#15593876) Attached to: Futurama Returns

Well, this thread is either going to be one person saying this is good and one person saying it's bad, or otherwise we all get to express our opinion :-P

As someone who only started watching the series after it was cancelled (and then watched at least one every night until he had seen them all) I am tentatively excited about this :)

Just don't mess it up. It ended so well.

Journal Journal: First hurricanes, now this!?

Journal by AyeRoxor! on Tuesday January 03, 2006 @04:26PM

Ok, I'm kind of an ass when it comes to trivializing tragedies. How fucking little did I know, when I acknowledged the beginning of the 2005 hurricane season, that I would be hearing reports about TS (possibly growing to hurricane) ZETA on January FUCKING THIRD of 2006?! Schmagger my fucking brieshtrum.

Well, now it's 2006 and there's no turning back!!!

She's pretty pretty...

Journal Journal: And so Hurricane Season officially starts...

Journal by AyeRoxor! on Sunday July 03, 2005 @05:23PM

It feels like it just ended, but here we are again. Where I am in Tampa, my power was out for 3 days last season. I've lived in the Tampa Bay area for over 15 years and never has my power been out for any length of time expressable in an integer value of days. But I dont consider myself a wimp by any manner of the term. My car doesnt have AC and I dont really care. 95 degrees is not out of the range of human survivability. So being without power wasn't exactly a life-changing experience